Been lurking here and reading similar threads for a few days, so just thought I'd share my own journey.
Smoked cigs from about age 15 to 30 (I'm 42 now). As soon as e-cigs hit the market, I switched over. Started on those funny little metal ones with the glowing end which looked like a real cigarette, and then as the tech progressed, move through a series of devices, eventually settling on a Oxva Velocity pod system with 0.3 coils. Vaped the custardy liquids, loved the taste, the clouds.
I'm not sure when it happened, but a couple of years ago I became aware that when I lay down at night on my side, I'd have to clear mucus from my throat for a good 10-15 minutes before I could fall asleep. It might have been going on for longer, but that's just when I started to notice. I just put it down to the vapour condensing in my throat over the day, and being cleared out, I considered it reasonable cost of doing business, as it were - but in hindsight, I guess it was an early warning. I was clearing my throat slightly every few minutes, all day long, without really realising I was doing it.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago, and all of a sudden every time I vape, it feels like it's coating my entire throat in a thick layer of mucus, which I would have to aggressively clear my throat, scores of times, over the next 2 hours to clear out.
By process of elimination, I narrowed it down to *mostly* being a VG problem. Liquids with any amount of VG in them (including 100% pure VG with no flavour or nicotine in it) would cause severe mucus lasting 1-2 hours. 100% PG causes *some* phlegm, but it's looser, less severe, and gone in 10-15 minutes.
I've always been a "chug monstrous clouds DTL as deep as possible" style of vaper. My last chance saloon is going back to MTL, 100% PG (with some menthol in it, 100% PG tastes awful even with flavours mixed) + 100% PG base nicotine, lowering the watts, and seeing if I can tolerate that. If not, it's the end of the road.
After basically stopping vaping for 4-5 days, I really became aware how often I'd been clearing my throat, for years, and now that it is clearing up, it's much more obvious when I hit a test vape how it comes back. So the only way I'll continue now is if my last chance method causes zero phlegm - if it causes any at all, I'm going to be extremely aware of it.
It's life, I must accept what I cannot change. But I'm pretty miserable about it, vaping giant clouds of sweet custardy liquid, and keeping a gentle nicotine buzz going all day had just become such an ingrained part of my psyche, it feels like a limb has gone missing.
Smoked cigs from about age 15 to 30 (I'm 42 now). As soon as e-cigs hit the market, I switched over. Started on those funny little metal ones with the glowing end which looked like a real cigarette, and then as the tech progressed, move through a series of devices, eventually settling on a Oxva Velocity pod system with 0.3 coils. Vaped the custardy liquids, loved the taste, the clouds.
I'm not sure when it happened, but a couple of years ago I became aware that when I lay down at night on my side, I'd have to clear mucus from my throat for a good 10-15 minutes before I could fall asleep. It might have been going on for longer, but that's just when I started to notice. I just put it down to the vapour condensing in my throat over the day, and being cleared out, I considered it reasonable cost of doing business, as it were - but in hindsight, I guess it was an early warning. I was clearing my throat slightly every few minutes, all day long, without really realising I was doing it.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago, and all of a sudden every time I vape, it feels like it's coating my entire throat in a thick layer of mucus, which I would have to aggressively clear my throat, scores of times, over the next 2 hours to clear out.
By process of elimination, I narrowed it down to *mostly* being a VG problem. Liquids with any amount of VG in them (including 100% pure VG with no flavour or nicotine in it) would cause severe mucus lasting 1-2 hours. 100% PG causes *some* phlegm, but it's looser, less severe, and gone in 10-15 minutes.
I've always been a "chug monstrous clouds DTL as deep as possible" style of vaper. My last chance saloon is going back to MTL, 100% PG (with some menthol in it, 100% PG tastes awful even with flavours mixed) + 100% PG base nicotine, lowering the watts, and seeing if I can tolerate that. If not, it's the end of the road.
After basically stopping vaping for 4-5 days, I really became aware how often I'd been clearing my throat, for years, and now that it is clearing up, it's much more obvious when I hit a test vape how it comes back. So the only way I'll continue now is if my last chance method causes zero phlegm - if it causes any at all, I'm going to be extremely aware of it.
It's life, I must accept what I cannot change. But I'm pretty miserable about it, vaping giant clouds of sweet custardy liquid, and keeping a gentle nicotine buzz going all day had just become such an ingrained part of my psyche, it feels like a limb has gone missing.
